Portfolio Highlight

Synova Power


Synova's converts all forms of waste into a carbon-neutral, synthetic natural gas which can be utilized as energy, fuel, or high-value chemicals.

At full deployment, Synova’s waste gasification technology can abate several gigatons of CO2e.

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Transforming waste into valuable resources

Synova has developed a cost effective, closed loop system that converts all types of trash – including plastic – into clean energy, fuel, high-value chemicals, or virgin plastic feedstock, without fossil fuels. Synova's technology is disruptive in the developed world and the first to fulfill a huge unmet need in the developing world

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Portfolio Highlight

Transforming waste into valuable resources

Synova has developed a cost effective, closed loop system that converts all types of trash – including plastic – into clean energy, fuel, high-value chemicals, or virgin plastic feedstock, without fossil fuels. Synova's technology is disruptive in the developed world and the first to fulfill a huge unmet need in the developing world

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Fullcycle philosophy

Hopeful Pragmatism

We're building as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

For generations, humanity has engineered and invented our way out of poverty and disease into a world of infinite possibilities. Until recently, we assumed that we were designing this world on a planet with infinite resources. We were wrong.​

We inherited a planet with finite air, water, and earth but we've run out of space and time to push off the unintended consequences of our ingenuity. At most, we have twenty years to drastically change course and it will require an extraordinary level of ambition to solve the climate crisis.

Private capital must lead the way

Low carbon infrastructure will continue to be a high growth sector for decades to come. $1 trillion every year needs to be invested in low carbon infrastructure until 2050 to avoid the most dire scenarios. Economic and geopolitical fallout from an unabated climate crisis will impact every market and portfolio.

Optimize for impact

FullCycle has a proven ability to find, guide, and scale remarkable partners that present inspiring returns and create the highest carbon return on investment. We invest in scalable, market ready technologies with the potential to remove those pollutants with highest warming potential in the first 20 years of emission.

We aim to accelerate the deployment of climate solutions at scale.

The window to solve the climate crisis is rapidly closing. Private capital must lead the way.

FullCycle is an investment firm that delivers outsized financial returns by fulfilling an unmet need in the mobilization against climate change. We invest to scale market-ready technologies, which dramatically reduce the short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) that disproportionately contribute to global warming.

FullCycle was selected as an ImpactAssets50 2020 Emerging Impact Fund Manager; it is a signatory of the International Finance Corporation Operating Principles for Impact Management and the United Nations Business Ambition for 1.5C Pledge.

In 2019, the company established the first-ever, public-private partnership to support engagement in anticipation of the 2019 Climate Action Summit, where FullCycle announced a commitment of $100 million toward climate-restoring technologies by 2021. In 2018, FullCycle made its flagship investment in Synova, which is reinventing waste to value to build a cleaner world.

Something something

The window to solve the climate crisis is rapidly closing.

FullCycle is an investment firm that delivers outsized financial returns by fulfilling an unmet need in the mobilization against climate change. We invest to scale market-ready technologies, which dramatically reduce the short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) that disproportionately contribute to global warming.

FullCycle was selected as an ImpactAssets50 2020 Emerging Impact Fund Manager; it is a signatory of the International Finance Corporation Operating Principles for Impact Management and the United Nations Business Ambition for 1.5C Pledge.

In 2019, the company established the first-ever, public-private partnership to support engagement in anticipation of the 2019 Climate Action Summit, where FullCycle announced a commitment of $100 million toward climate-restoring technologies by 2021. In 2018, FullCycle made its flagship investment in Synova, which is reinventing waste to value to build a cleaner world.

How we invest

Something something

Synova has developed a cost effective, closed loop system that converts all types of trash – including plastic – into clean energy, fuel, high-value chemicals, or virgin plastic feedstock, without fossil fuels. Synova's technology is disruptive in the developed world and the first to fulfill a huge unmet need in the developing world.

FullCycle Framework

Market-Ready Technologies

We’re running out of time to significantly invest in technology that addresses the climate crisis. We focus on commercially-viable technologies that have the largest climate impact per dollar invested, and will maximize returns.

Both Companies and Projects

While each investment starts with a portfolio company, the majority of our capital will be invested in projects that are ready to deploy at a large scale. This strategy produces a portfolio of stable project assets plus appreciation in the value of the underlying portfolio companies themselves.

Preferential Access

We take significant ownership in our portfolio companies and arrange right-of-first-refusal agreements on their project pipelines. This enables us to rapidly deploy infrastructure solutions while providing investors with access to exclusive revenue opportunities.

Scalable Impact

Platform companies must demonstrate robust product pipelines sufficient to reach global scale in the near-term and that their projects have the potential to have a material impact on the global environment when deployed at scale. We define material impact as gigaton-scale abatement of CO2 equivalent annually or a comparable environmental benefit.

Zem Joaquin

Founder and CEO, Near Future Network

Kyle Adkins

Partner, Investments

Albert Marino

Business Leader, Entrepreneur and Investor

Ann M. Veneman

Former Executive Director at UNICEF

Katie Lafleur

Partner, Investor Relations

Giffen Ott

Co-Managing Partner, Investment Committee Chair

Dr. Katharine Wilkinson

VP Communications & Engagement, Project Drawdown

Lorene Arey

Senior Advisor

Jay Rosenzweig

CEO, Rosenzweig & Company

Riaz Karamali

Senior Partner, Pillsbury

Kathleen Rogers

President, Earth Day Network

Erika Karp

Founder and CEO, Cornerstone Capital Inc

Nathalie Molina Niño

Strategic Advisor

Yazan Al Taher

Partner, Fund and Portfolio Operations

Stephan Nicoleau

Partner, Capital Formation

Ibrahim AlHusseini

Founder & Managing Partner

By investing in deployment- ready technologies, FullCycle is committed to a future that brings circularity to what we use, how we use it. This collection draws on articles and conversations from experts assessing climate risk, sustainability, the energy transition and approaches to redefining the challenges brought on by climate change.

How We Invest

We source, screen and evaluate potential investment opportunities using two equally important criteria: financial and carbon return on investment. Companies that we invest in are at the pre-commercialization phase and must prove the efficacy and maturity of their technologies.

Market Ready Technology

Because the climate crisis is a race against time, we invest in technologies that are “six continent solutions,” meaning wide applicability across regions. We invest in technologies that have proven efficacy and are poised for commercialization.

Gigatone Co2e Impact

We maximize measurable climate impact with every dollar we invest. Companies must demonstrate their technologies have material, capital efficient impact on climate at full deployment: a gigaton CO2(e) abatement/year.

Uncomprised Financial Returns

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Long Tail of Projects

We only engage in opportunities where we can secure rights to invest in the project assets of platform companies on a fixed, preferential basis, typically a Right of First Refusal (ROFR), negotiated in connection with our investment in the platform company itself.

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